Emily Margaret Kim is a film composer and multi-instrumentalist from New York City, where she is currently based. Recognized for the striking emotional power of her music, Emily seeks to write immersive scores that evoke a deeply felt sense of memory and story. She finds joy in collaborating closely with filmmakers to create resonant, narrative-focused work.

Her work has been featured in numerous film festivals, including the Academy Award®- and BAFTA-qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival and Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. She is currently scoring her first feature film, slated for release next year.

Her debut single, A Bittersweet Goodbye, has garnered over 200,000 streams on Spotify and has received recognition from industry figures including Joe Jonas.

A classically trained pianist and oboist, Emily grew up playing music at the Mannes School of Music (Pre-College) in NYC.

She has assisted and received mentorship from Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated film & TV composer Lili Haydn (Ginny & Georgia). She was also among the selected cohort of composers for the ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop (2025) Composer Spotlight program in New York.

Emily graduated with a dual degree with honors in Music from Brown University, where she studied composition with renowned composers Eric Nathan, Anthony Cheung, and Butch Rovan. She received Brown’s Muriel Hassenfeld Mann Premium in Music (2023), awarded annually to a female student who excels in music. She is also a recent graduate of NYU Steinhardt’s Screen Scoring master’s program, where she studied composition with Irwin Fisch, Mandy Hoffman, and Catherine Joy.